388_1
DESCRIPTION
A 20-slide-long Powerpoint presentation that you can download for free. Aimed at teachers in schools where Mexicolore has made a team presentation, the sequence can be used independently or, ideally, as follow-up to one of Mexicolore's in-school workshops.TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: 388_1](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022061220/54ba503c4a795954468b4882/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Graciela’s familyCan you spot Graciela and Ian?
![Page 2: 388_1](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022061220/54ba503c4a795954468b4882/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
The ‘petate’In the codex picture, a couple are getting married on the petate; the old folk round about them
are giving them plenty of advice for the future! Petates are still used today in Mexico…
More info: aztecs.org: aztefacts: a people's bed
![Page 3: 388_1](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022061220/54ba503c4a795954468b4882/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
TenochtitlanA city of up to 250,000 people – 5 times the size of London in those days!
Can you see the 3 main causeways linking the city to the mainland?And the volcanoes of Iztaccíhuatl (left) and Popocatépetl (right)?
![Page 4: 388_1](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022061220/54ba503c4a795954468b4882/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
The Year ‘One-Flint’In the codex picture, the Aztecs are leaving their mythical homeland of Aztlán; can you spot
the year sign? Their tribal god Huitzilopochtli is in the mountain glyph on the right.
More info: aztecs.org: aztefacts: who were the Mexica?
![Page 5: 388_1](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022061220/54ba503c4a795954468b4882/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Mexico vs UKMexico is 8 times the size of the United Kingdom and
15 times the size of England on its own…
![Page 6: 388_1](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022061220/54ba503c4a795954468b4882/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
More info: aztecs.org: aztec life: 'Tiger Top'
The Aztecs used all 5 of the basic ways to make clothes…
![Page 7: 388_1](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022061220/54ba503c4a795954468b4882/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
The ‘Quechquémitl’
![Page 8: 388_1](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022061220/54ba503c4a795954468b4882/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
The
National
Emblem
By law it appears on
every Mexican coin. ‘Estados
Unidos Mexicanos’ means The
United States of Mexico
![Page 9: 388_1](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022061220/54ba503c4a795954468b4882/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
More info: aztecs.org: aztec life: 'Tiger Top'
The Aztecs used all 5 of the basic ways to make clothes…
![Page 10: 388_1](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022061220/54ba503c4a795954468b4882/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Traditional baby-carrying baskets
More info: aztecs.org: aztec artefacts: baby basket
![Page 11: 388_1](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022061220/54ba503c4a795954468b4882/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Aztec load carriers: using the ‘tumpline’ they regularly carried over 20 kilos each and travelled over 20 kilometres to the
next post – as part of a relay system
![Page 12: 388_1](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022061220/54ba503c4a795954468b4882/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
The traditional corn/maize pancake
![Page 13: 388_1](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022061220/54ba503c4a795954468b4882/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Making chocolate the traditional way; the
whisk is called a ‘molinillo’ in Mexico
More info:-aztecs.org: aztec life: Blood of the gods
![Page 14: 388_1](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022061220/54ba503c4a795954468b4882/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Freshly made, organic chewing gum: the real
thing!
More info:-aztecs.org: aztec artefacts: tzictli
Sticky chicle – strictly ‘tzictli’!
![Page 15: 388_1](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022061220/54ba503c4a795954468b4882/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
An Aztec ‘death bundle’. This was clearly a rich person,
buried with everything from jewellery to a jaguar skin…
More info:-aztecs.org: aztec life: a bundle of death
![Page 16: 388_1](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022061220/54ba503c4a795954468b4882/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
The Aztecs had two calendars: one based on the sun, for farmers; the other, based on the moon, for priests. The
same date in both calendars only came round once every 52 years – a ‘bundle of years’, a bit like our ‘century’
![Page 17: 388_1](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022061220/54ba503c4a795954468b4882/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
The Aztecs believed in giving before receiving: by offering human flesh to their gods they hoped to receive food from the earth in return; by offering human blood, they hoped to
receive rain and fresh water to drink; by offering human hearts they hoped to receive heat, light and energy from
the sun, so life would be able to carry on…
![Page 18: 388_1](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022061220/54ba503c4a795954468b4882/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
The Aztecs called their
poetry ‘flower-songs’.
The more beautiful the
song or poem, the more
beautiful the flower (above
the large speech scroll)
…
![Page 19: 388_1](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022061220/54ba503c4a795954468b4882/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
We don’t know for
sure which Aztec god is in the centre
of the ‘Sunstone’: it could be the
sun god Tonatiuh, or it could be the earth
lord,Tlaltecuhtli
![Page 20: 388_1](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022061220/54ba503c4a795954468b4882/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
The glyph for ‘movement’ at the heart
of the Sunstone